Metacritic

While the film is deliberately crude in some respects — Park once described his aesthetic as making sure that, no matter how carefully sculpted his clay figures were, he always left the thumbprints showing — it’s fastidiously detailed in others, dancing between broad humor and subtle, almost subliminal gags as it plays out the conflict between Neanderthals and their evolutionary successors.

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Movie Info & Cast

Director: Nick Park

Producer: Richard Beek, Sean Clarke, Alicia Gold

Writer: Mark Burton, James Higginson, Nick Park

Release Date: Feb 16, 2018

Runtime: 1hr 29m

Synopsis

Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

Cast

Tom Hiddleston

Eddie Redmayne

Maisie Williams

Timothy Spall

Richard Ayoade

Nick Park

Mark Williams

Miriam Margolyes

Rob Brydon

Johnny Vegas

Did You Know?

Trivia

This will mark the first feature film that Nick Park will have directed by himself. On Chicken Run (2000) and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), he directed alongside Peter Lord and Steve Box respectively.